@FredGUnn I guess you’re right regarding the final result, and by the way Dorico takes care of the instrument changes in the score too, so that’s great.
My problem happens during the writing phase in galley view: sometimes a particular player will use instruments from different families, it gets messy pretty quickly because these instruments appear side to side, instead of in the ‘orchestral’ order. I think someone else described a similar problem in this post.
Daniel suggested using instrument filters, which I’m already doing (and they’re great), but it does nothing for the instrument order.
So I guess I would appreciate a ‘Sort Instruments’ option in the instrument filter. I think that could be useful in a number of cases, and it would help the writing without touching the way Dorico renders the score (if that makes sense).